Hearth and Hamlet Features - Pixel Art, Magic and Trading

The Hearth and Hamlet features are set out as a list on the store page rather than in prose, and the list is unusually domestic for its genre: a pixel art world, a resource loop, laws, a research tree and a relaxing pace.

The feature list the store publishes

Everything below is written on the store page as a labelled feature, one sentence each.

• Incremental idle kingdom builder, described as a cozy loop that rewards patience and planning.
• Medieval pixel art world with lakes, rivers, magical swamps and faraway lands.
• Deep building system running from simple tents to taverns, castles, magical academies and defensive fortifications.
• Resource, worker and policy management, with population assigned to gather food, wood, stone and gold.
• Research tree that permanently unlocks new buildings, magic and upgrades.
• Magic, alchemy and more, including alchemical labs and magical academies.
• Trade with faraway lands through routes with neighbouring kingdoms.
• Relaxing pacing, described as gameplay engineered to be relaxing and satisfying.

That is the complete published feature list, and it contains no combat, no PvP and no multiplayer of any kind.

Ratings and the absent content descriptors

The listing carries no Steam content descriptors and only three region verdicts, all mild.

Scheme	Rating	Descriptors on the listing
DEJUS (Brazil)	6	Fantasy violence
Steam Germany scheme	6	Fantasy violence
IGRS (Indonesia)	13	Violence

Both 6 ratings cite fantasy violence rather than anything the store text describes, and the store text never mentions combat. The listing shows nothing between the two: no gore note, no horror warning and no descriptor ids at all.

Languages, voice and audio

Seven languages are listed, and all seven carry the full audio flag: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

That is a broader audio footprint than most small citybuilders, where the voice track is usually English only and the rest are subtitled. The listing gives no separate voice cast, no narrator credit and no note on what the audio actually contains.

Store metadata and reception

The listing names Phorust Studios as developer, with Runic Forge and Gamersky Games as publishers, and files the game under Casual, Simulation and Strategy. Steam reported 2,224 reviews on the store page at the time we captured the data.

Twelve screenshots and three trailers are published, including one named after a demo. The store page also embeds media inside the About the Game section.

What is not listed is any season pass, any roadmap and any dated plan for the single DLC appid attached to the product.

Where to go next

The achievements are counted and partly named on Achievements, the store data in a single table is on Cheat Sheet, and the building and policy systems are explained on How It Plays.